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View of ScrpBk1_02-verso: English version of letter from A. G. Duthrie to Sylvie Destrubé, 11 March 1917, and note from "Ed. J."

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  • [start page 2] March 6th 1917. I very much regret to inform you that your two brothers, Guy and Paul were Killed in action on the 17th of February. I happen to be the Lewis Gun Officer and up to a few minutes of their death I was talking to them and they were both very cheery. It may be some consolation to you to know that they have buried <del>them</del> together, and there is a cross in memory of them at Ovillers ---- Ed. J. -- ---- 11/3/17. This morning a slightly wounded officer came in to the Battn. Aid Post to be dressed. He had in his possession a letter, addressed to my fellow Chaplain, I read it and find that I can tell you something about your Brothers. I regret to say that it is the worst. I buried them both together on the field on which the Brigade has recently been fighting. I went out with a burying party at day-dawn on the 28th., and we found both of your brothers lying dead within eight yeards of each other, in close proximity of the German wire. They were both killed by machine-gun fire and their features were not at all marred. One of the burying party from the 22nd. Battn. recognized them before we found the particulars. We buried them side by side in a shell hole grave, together with one of the 1st. Kings Royal Rifles and 23rd. Battn. R.F., all comrades in the attack. I took the service at the grave side and saw that a stout cross was erected to mark the site. It is numbered 12, and particulars have been sent to the Grave Registration Unit of its locality. ----- ---- A.G. Duthrie. C.F. [end page 2]
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